A Sugar Skull and a Few Thoughts on Irish Skin

My friend Sue and I were talking last time I saw her about what it's like to have sensitive Irish skin, which we both do.

Basically what it means it that you have extra nerves in your skin that other people don't have. If a tiny little mote of dust lands on your arm, you feel it like a cattle prod and have to scratch it or rub it off. So where some people have trouble falling asleep, Irish people spend the first hour after they go to bed making their hair stop touching their neck, or getting an uncomfortable sheet fold off their knee.

It's really a fright. Any tag in clothing is like the fire of a billion suns boring into your neck and you LITERALLY can think of nothing else but removing it, or a teeny loose thread that keeps touching your shoulder.

I don't know why this would really be an evolutionary asset, unless we are just supposed to be tiger fodder while people with less sensitive skin carry on the human race, but it is a bit of a curse. Hang on - my eyebrow itches!

I thought about this last night while a fold in my pajamas was torturing the back of my knee.

Anyway - HALLOWEEN IS COMING!! I'm breaking into winter holiday crafting with a glorious sugar skull mask! I love this one because it covers the whole card front, but she also has this smaller one and this smaller one too.  This one is actually a mask, not a stencil, because just the skull part masks the white off - there's no frame around it. I thought it might be fun to do a galaxy background with this one, so I used my Life Changing Blender Brushes and these Gina K Inks: Wild Lilac, Blue Raspberry, Wild Dandelion, Innocent Pink, and then went over it in places with Amalgam.

Then I splattered Pen White Ink all over the whole thing after removing the stencil. I thought about a word die, but it is so cool unobscured I just left it. So fun.

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I thought about giving out bottled water for Halloween as a joke, but I did the right thing and ordered the good candy from Instacart, so now we wait for what I hope is a large crop of Trick Or Treaters. I look forward to the cuteness from my Ring Doorbell videos every year, even though the kids seem to get sparser with each passing year.

What do you do for Halloween/Dia de los Muertos? Besides eating candy, that is. It's usually too hot here for pumpkins - they typically rot the same day you carve them unless it's a super unusual year, so I either paint them or skip them altogether now. 

Are you dressing up? Dressing up some littles or your pets? Let me know! :) I'll be back Wednesday with my Halloween card featuring a fun new watercolor product, and then Thursday I'll have a BEAUTIFUL new set that is perfect for no line watercolor.

Have a great start to your week!

Loveyameanitbye.